I've heard that "alternate S7 with Returned Tara" thing before, and I don't believe a word of it.
I've got two words that are going to make all the pain go away. Miniature Golf.
Mayor ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Buffy 4: Grr. Arrgh.
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Jessica - Jul 08, 2003 12:37:00 pm PDT #3212 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
erikaj - Jul 08, 2003 12:41:24 pm PDT #3213 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I'm not sure I believe it, but still I find it touching.
tina f. - Jul 08, 2003 12:44:37 pm PDT #3214 of 10001
I don't believe a word of it.
why not?
(hoping for an answer that will ease my pain)
Sean K - Jul 08, 2003 12:47:07 pm PDT #3215 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
(hoping for an answer that will ease my pain)
I don't know what Jess' answer will be, but for me, they went through a LOT of trouble at the end of S6 to make it known that Tara was dead, dead, dead, dead as fucking stone and that there was Jack and Shit to be done about it.
I would have been very upset to have that nullified, no matter how happy the return of Tara would have made me.
Jessica - Jul 08, 2003 12:48:58 pm PDT #3216 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Mostly because it sounds a lot like some of the bullshit he and Marti and SG were making up on the Wild at Heart commentary.
And because I can't believe that they'd cap off Buffy's year of post-mortem depression by rewarding the woman who put her there with the return of her true love from the dead. The show's always been about forgiveness, but it's generally people forgiving each other, not the universe handing out candy and flowers.
[And What Sean Said, too.]
tina f. - Jul 08, 2003 12:52:37 pm PDT #3217 of 10001
It's not so much the return of Tara that would have made me happy, but the lack of Kennedy. Or the full-on humiliating slap down of Kennedy that would have accompanied the return of a triumphant Tara. (OK - unlikely, but a girl can dream.)
Jessica - Jul 08, 2003 12:55:46 pm PDT #3218 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
If Tara had come back as a zombie, and eaten Kennedy's brains, I would have cheered.
Tara returned to life fully human and normal and happy and 4EVAH!!!! with Willow?
They wouldn't have needed Spike's Big Gay Amulet at all -- Sunnydale would have spontaneously collapsed from the complete undermining of what Tara's death meant in the first place.
tina f. - Jul 08, 2003 1:01:51 pm PDT #3219 of 10001
It is true. It would have been gross and wrong.
I just couldn't bring myself to give a shit about Willow post-STSP this season except to scream at her to knock Kennedy upside the head for me. And anything that would've helped with that seems like the best idea ever now. But you're right - having Tara walk out of a glowing cloud of love showering Willow with puppies and lollipops - not of the good.
Lyra Jane - Jul 08, 2003 1:13:38 pm PDT #3220 of 10001
Up with the sun
Sunnydale would have spontaneously collapsed from the complete undermining of what Tara's death meant in the first place.
Yes, this. It would have been a cheat, and evil and Bad. It would mean that, for all the talk about "anyone can die on this show," the only major deaths where the person stayed dead were Ms. Calendar and Joyce -- and neither of those characters were as important to the show as Tara at the time of their deaths.
I think Joss was just blowing smoke.
(Unless the idea was that Willow would think Tara had been reincarnated, and would be all happy and bliss bliss bliss, and then at minute 42 it would turn out "Tara" was the First. THAT would be kinda awesome.)
Sean K - Jul 08, 2003 1:22:58 pm PDT #3221 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
It's not so much the return of Tara that would have made me happy, but the lack of Kennedy. Or the full-on humiliating slap down of Kennedy that would have accompanied the return of a triumphant Tara. (OK - unlikely, but a girl can dream.)
Oh, I know. Kennedy sucked. And not in the good way.
But they really established Tara's death as permanent. Bringing her back would have been one of those "nice to wish for, but having that wish granted would have sucked beyond the telling of it" things, I guess.